Resource Type
States
[News Script: News brief -- Playford]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a ceremony honoring Dallas Country Sheriff's Deputy W. E. Playford, who has been appointed chief of police in the town of Lancaster.
Date:
November 10, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Council approves new water plant]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles Nash, the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce President, asking the city council to make building a new $5 million water pumping plant a priority.
Date:
November 10, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Georgia Tech]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Georgia Tech going to the Cotton Bowl.
Date:
December 30, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Accident at bridge]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a major car crash involving the Dewey Killingsworth family and James Lloyd Allen, killing the unborn baby of Mrs. Killingsworth.
Date:
October 31, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: City officials honor AA unit]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about troops of the 546th anti-aircraft battalion in Fort Worth staging a full dress review for city officials.
Date:
August 18, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mass of requiem said at Dallas]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about All Soul's Day being observed on the outdoor altar in Calvary Hill Cemetery in Dallas.
Date:
November 2, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News briefs - Haltom vote]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an election to keep Haltom City from being incorporated into Fort Worth.
Date:
September 12, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Kids folic at annual field meet]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an annual youth track and field day at the Dallas Country Day School.
Date:
October 26, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Youth shot with stolen pistol]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gang of young aspiring burglars broken up by police in Fort Worth after one of the boys shot himself in the leg with a stolen pistol. The script goes on to describe a man shot non-fatally in the chest after an argument over a woman at a Dallas boarding house.
Date:
September 2, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Giraffe arrives at new zoo home]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of a new female giraffe for the Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, intended as a mate for the zoo's male giraffe.
Date:
August 10, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Operation gobbler]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about combat readiness exercises for reservists in the form of a mock battle at the Dallas Naval Air Station.
Date:
November 14, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News briefs - Ice girl]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Phyllis Stewart advertising for the Ice Cycles opening its run Fair Park.
Date:
September 22, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News briefs - Miss Sweden]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Anita Ekberg, Miss Sweden of 1951, stopping in Dallas on her way to Atlanta.
Date:
November 18, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Firefighters see demonstrations]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about training demonstrations of various types of fires and techniques to extinguish them, at an event for firefighters sponsored by the Tarrant County Volunteer Fire Fighters Association.
Date:
October 10, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Corky Makarwich]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about campaign efforts by fringe Republican candidate for Tarrant County Sheriff, Corky Makarwich.
Date:
October 29, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Victorious Frogs return from coast]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs football team returning to Fort Worth after defeating the University of Southern California 20-7 in Los Angeles.
Date:
October 10, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Petersen denied release on bond]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bond hearing for Keith Lewis Petersen, a Dallas man accused of murdering a woman in a downtown office building. Petersen, who was previously ruled insane but now considered fit to stand trial, is denied release on bond.
Date:
November 24, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Officials study grid subsidizing]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about faculty representatives of the Southwest Conference meeting to toughen recruiting rules for athletes and to investigate rumors about violations of athletic subsidization rules.
Date:
September 12, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: State fair preparations]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about preparations for the State Fair of Texas in Dallas.
Date:
October 5, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pair indicted in extortion plot]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the start of grand jury hearings against two men accused of extorting a series of prominent Jewish families in Dallas.
Date:
September 7, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Youths confess armed robbery]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two Fort Worth high schoolers arrested after confessing to an armed robbery at a Dallas cafe.
Date:
September 28, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Soldier charged in child's death]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Army private George Malloy being charged with murder following the death of his seven week old son.
Date:
October 13, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Reservist injured in plane crash]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the crash of an Air National Guard training plane at Hensley Field in Grand Prairie after the aircraft experienced engine trouble on takeoff. One of the two men in the plane is slightly injured after the plane struck the ground.
Date:
December 1, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Traffic safety record]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the city of Fort Worth passing its 90th day without a traffic death - the longest stretch attained by the city.
Date:
October 13, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library